I'm a single dad with 2 kids in college, self-employed as a marketing/communications consultant in the healthcare industries. My son Aaron is a freshman in the photojournalism major at Ohio U; my daughter Becca an accomplished amateur. I have Dektol in my veins because I'm the son of a PPA Master Photographer, the late Clarence Snyder. I started shooting for pay as a high school sophomore, using a 4x5 Speed Graphic, then a Minolta Autocord. Went through Lehigh shooting mostly with a Mamiyaflex C2 and a Leica IIIa. Bought myself a Topcon RS SLR as a graduation present. Upgraded to a series of Canon SLRs, all of which I still own. Lived most of my life in New York, studied portraiture with Philippe Halsman, and blended his love of people-shooting with my passion for photojournalism...the synthesis of which is candid portraiture. Although I shoot exclusively digital (Nikon D70) and lust for a D700, the lure of my Leica M4P system. Nikon N80 and more than 60 film cameras from the 1930s-1980s is taking me back to film. I have an Omega B22 enlarger and all the hardware in the basement here, ready to re-enter that world again.